ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Hardly Boring: Cerambycid Workers Symposium

Sunday, November 13, 2011: 1:30 PM-5:25 PM
Room D1, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Organizers:
Ann M. Ray
Amy Berkov
1:30 PM
Welcoming Remarks
1:33 PM
0201
Female-produced sex pheromone of Desmocerus californicus californicus, a species in the cerambycid subfamily Lepturinae
Ann M. Ray, Xavier University; Ian Swift, California State Collection of Arthropods; J. Steven McElfresh, University of California; Ronald L. Alten, R.L. Alten Personal Collection; Jocelyn G. Millar, University of California, Riverside
1:58 PM
0202
Role of volatile semiochemicals in the host and mate location behavior of Mallodon dasystomus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
Matthew A. Paschen, Purdue University; Jocelyn G. Millar, University of California, Riverside; Nathan M. Schiff, USDA - Forest Service; Matthew D. Ginzel, Purdue University
2:23 PM
0203
Sensory overload: how can twenty species of cerambycids share a single pheromone?
Robert F. Mitchell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Becca L. Striman, University of Illinois; Kenneth P. Robinson, University of Illinois; Elizabeth E. Graham, Michigan State University; James D. Barbour, University of Idaho; Jocelyn G. Millar, University of California, Riverside; Lawrence M. Hanks, University of Illinois
2:48 PM
0204
Sampling cerambycid species across a vertical gradient using synthetic pheromone lures
Elizabeth E. Graham, Michigan State University; Therese Poland, USDA - Forest Service; Jocelyn G. Millar, University of California, Riverside; Deborah G. McCullough, Michigan State University
3:13 PM
0205
Cerambycid symbionts unveiled: cocci in the fat body, rods in the gut
Olga Calderon, City University of New York
3:38 PM
Break
3:48 PM
0206
Preliminary findings into the morphology and systematics of Onciderini (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)
Eugenio H. Nearns, University of New Mexico; Kelly B. Miller, University of New Mexico
4:13 PM
0207
Panama Canal Amplification: making the best of a clearcut situation
Amy Berkov, City College of New York; Sara Pinzon, Balboa, Ancón and Universidad de Panama
4:38 PM
0208
In French Guiana, wood-boring beetles like it wet
Joyce Fassbender, The City College of New York
5:03 PM
0209
Revealing food-web links with molecular analysis of parasitoid gut contents
Lin C. Li, The City College of New York
5:28 PM
Concluding Remarks
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